Incubator.



PATENTED' MAR. 10, 1908. J. L. NIX. INGUBATOR. APPLIOATION FILED JULY 24, 1908.

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JAMES L. NIX, or HOMER CITY, PENNSYLVANIA.

INGUBATORV To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMEs L. NIX J ,acitize'n of a United States, and ijesident'bf Homer City, Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful l mprovementsin Incubators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in incubators, and has foriits object to provide means for equalizing the distribution of heated air in the egg chamber of an incubator.'

I In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective View of an incubator embodying my invention, the top" of the incubator casing being removed. Fig. 2 is atransverse, vertical view'in midsection of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal, vertical view in midseetion of the heating drum, and'heat distributing )ipe embodied iii the form of my invention w ich is illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2.

I have illustrated herewith a simple embodiment of my invention, comprising a casing 4 provided with a top -5, and door 6.

The bottom of the incubator casing, indicated by the numeral 7 is provided with the openings 8, an-egg tray 9 is mounted within the casing 4. The heating, drum 10 is heated by means of a lamp 1], the drum 10' being open at its bottom as indicated by the numeral 12v to admit a constantly ascending column of fresh air to be heated by contact with the lamp chimney 13. r A horizontal heat distributing )ipe 14 extends irom the heating drum 10 through one of the side walls of the casing 4 and across the top of the incubator; the inner end 15 of the pipe 14 being open. Beneaththe pipe 14 I have provided a horizontaldeflecting strip 16 extending entirely across the width 'ol'the' interior of the incubator casing 4 as shown in section by Fig. 3, the purpose of the strip 16 being to prevent excessive heating of; that portion of the egg tray 9 which is directly beneath the pipe 14.

Near the top 5 l have provided two deflectors 17, extending entirely across the width of the interior of the incubator, and provided with the depending vertical walls 18 and 19, the walls 19 beingprojected downwardly until they appromh the outer edges of the sheet or strip 16 in the manner indicated in section by Fig. 2.

The mode of operation of the above d'e- "ascribed form of my invention is follows:

Specification of. Letters Patent.

Application filed July 2.4, 1906. Serial No. 327,586.

" subscribing witnesses.

.Patented March 10, 1908.

the incubator through the pipe 14, out of its "open end 15. The heated air thus. admitted to the egg chamber rises, and is distributed laterally through the passages 20 to or near the opposite walls of the incubator, when it passes downwardly through the passages 21, to the interior the egg chamber. Having become partly cooled during this process the. same air rises through the passages 22 between the walls 19 and edges of the strip 16. In this manner I secure a constant and equable distribution of the heated air.

Having thus described my invention, what claim 1s:

1. An incubator having an egg chamber,

2. In a device of the class described a combination ol' an incubator having an egg chamber, a heating drum, a pipe connecting the heating drum to the end of the egg chamber, a horizontal.deflector mounted beneath said pipe deflectors mounted in the upper portion ol the egg chamber a 'nd vertical deflectors mounted at each side oi the first named deflector, substantially as described.

3.,An incubator, having an egg chamber, an egg tray mounted in the egg chamlmr, deflectors mounted in the upper portion of the egg chamber forming a passage between the same and the top of the incubator, a pair ol" depending walls projecting downwardly and located centrally in the egg chamber, a

distributing pipe located in the egg chamber between the centrally depending walls, a

the distributing pipe and extending throughout the length of the egg chamber, downwardly projecting deflecting walls 18 formed on the ends oi the horizontalulefleetors forming passages at the sides till the egg chamber between the same and the vertical walls of the incubator, substantially as specified. i

In testimony whereol, l have signed my name to this specification, in presence of two JAMES IA. NIX. Witnesses:

C. F. JAMISON,

HARRY A. McALnn 

